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Monday, July 11, 2016

Week of 07/11/2016

Saying Stuff You Don’t Want To Hear Right Now– by David Matthews 2

In the past week, we’ve had a series of events shoved in our faces thanks
to the air-fluffed ego-driven media.Events that took our minds off the 2016 Farce and off “Lady Macbeth” Hillary
Clinton and “The Ego” Donald Trump.

Two police shootings where innocent men were needlessly murdered, and one
instance in Dallas where police were killed by a veteran who wanted to see “white
cops die”.

And now the script says that we need to call for peace.Everyone wants us to take a breath and step
back and let things just calm the hell down.The media says that we are “on edge” and “on the verge”, and Rupert
Murdock’s media empire is even going so far as to claim that
we’re already in a “civil war”.So
the script is now demanding we all calm down and stop this insanity.

Good luck with that.

You see, I know that I should be telling people that we’re not “there”
yet, that things aren’t so bad that we should just go Helter-Skelter on
society.That is what the script is
demanding of us all.They want the
Facebook posts and the blog posts and the newspaper headlines to talk peace and
“can’t we all just get along” and all of that crap.

And it is crap.

So I’m not going to tell you what the script says I should be telling
you.I’m going to tell you the stuff that
you don’t want to hear right now.Because let’s get brutally honest here... as long as everyone is
following the goddamned script, nobody’s addressing the problems that are
getting ignored, because nobody’s saying what needs to be said right now.

First of all, we have way too many people right now with chips on their
shoulders.The GOP and their friends in
talk radio and Fox News have been busy keeping those people riled up and pissed
off like rabid dogs.They’re spoiling
for a fight. They’re itching for a fight.They need to fight someone.

And it’s not like this is a sudden thing.They can’t even blame this on Barack Obama being elected President.This has been building since the 80’s.This is something that has been growing and ballooning
and festering like an infected ingrown hair, and every so often something happens
to set it aside.The bombing of Oklahoma
City in 1995 and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 were moments of pause.The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq
War were also moments of pause.The
former were warning signs of where their anger was leading them to.The latter provided targets to focus their
rage and their hatred on.You want to
know why the cons and neo-cons have held a rabid hatred of Obama from day one?This is why.It has nothing to do with Obama and everything to do with an
orchestrated and engineered pattern of rage and anger to keep the rabid on the
side of the conservatives and neo-conservatives.

Then on the other side, you have people that are filled with rage and
frustration because they’re seeing murder being carried out by people with badges
and they’re getting away with it.The
police can’t even excuse these new incidents as just “thugs and hoodlums” like
they have previously!Both victims legitimately
carried a firearm and had all the legal permits and permissions.They did everything right, and they still
ended up dead by a cop.

And here’s the really crazy thing: these are people that are told to put their
trust in “the system” to do “what is right”.And eventually they do that, and then the system screws them over and it
lets the cops walk!

You see, what is not being told in the whole “trust the system” script is
the fact that the police are part of the system!You can’t hold the system to account for
their mistakes, because in the pompous self-serving minds of those in power,
they cannot do anything wrong, ever!

Look at what is happening in Baltimore!A year after an African-American’s death at the hands of police, the
officers responsible are all being let go one at a time!The community that was tearing itself apart
last year and set off nation-wide protests was told to trust the system, and
they eventually did, and the system is now screwing them over.

And this is something that the Fox News “’Muricans” refuse to
recognize.They’re stuck in their
pretentious self-righteous bubbles of arrogance and privilege waiting for these
“uppity people” to just pipe down and shut up and move on so they can go back
to getting Donald Trump elected President.That’s why they have those snarky asinine little sound bites like “Cops
Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter”.After
all, it’s the Fox News “’Muricans” that are supposed to have the chips on their
shoulders!

This is going to happen again, and it will get worse.I don’t care how many calls for peace you
make.I don’t care how many “conversations”
and “dialogues” you have.The system
will continue to fight any attempt to hold the police to account for their
actions.You’d have a better chance
talking judges and prosecutors into sawing off their own feet.The only way it will change is when those in power
have a vested interest in that change.

The other thing that needs to be said that people don’t want to hear right
now has to do with what happened in Dallas, when a lone military vet decided he
wanted to be the judge, jury, and executioner of “white cops”.I’m sure he thought he was righting some kind
of wrong when he did what he did, but the ugly truth is... he did just the
opposite.

What this guy did was make police into victims!He undermined every single call for justice
with his actions.

And this goes for anyone who thinks that murdering someone will somehow “right”
any perceived “wrongs”.It won’t.In fact, all it will do is it will sanctify
that person.

Remember when the whole thing about cops shooting and killing
African-American men first started?Whatever these men did before they died got erased in the eyes of the
public.It didn’t matter that these were
criminals.It didn’t matter that they
were doing something seriously wrong.The minute the cops killed them, they were absolved of any wrongdoing.

Remember the school shootings?Remember when you had disturbed teenage boys deciding to enact some
personal justice on those that bullied and tormented them?Did they get any kind of validation from the
public?Hell no!Did the masses suddenly realize what was
happening to the shooters that caused them to take up the gun?Absolutely not!Their victims were transformed into saints!Any wrongs they did before they died were
instantly purged from memory.The
victims became saints, and the shooters were suddenly evil as sin.

I know we want justice for those that have done us wrong.I know that probably more than some others.I know that the scales are out of whack, and
that it would seem a whole lot easier if a lot of people who have been doing us
wrong were suddenly taken out of the equation.But it is just fantasy to think that suddenly the world would right
itself if that happened.It won’t.All you’ll do is turn yourself into the very
evil you think you’re trying to eliminate.

I know our system is screwed up.But a blind fanatical adherence to it at all costs – as those in the Fox
News “Murican” crowd demand - won’t fix things.Comedian Jon Stewart said it best back in 2014.He
said“You can truly grieve for every officer
who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by
cases of police overreach; those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can
have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high
standards.”It’s one
thing to take a stand, to demand things be fixed, to push for things to be
fixed.But the minute we take it upon
ourselves to carry out a quick fix of the violent kind, we become just as much
of the problem as the people that have caused it.

We need solutions, not talking points.We need to fix the system, and that means giving up the ones that don’t
want things to change.And until we’re
there, we have no right to tell others to simply “trust the system” when we
know that trust is a lie.

2 comments:

My feelings are that BLM have a potential to bring change if they can do it right. What doesn't help is when they decide to disrupt campaign speeches like they did with Bernie Sanders. They have to know what they want first and make sure they let the public know what they want. If they're just seen as a bunch of angry people pissed off at the world, then that's all they'll be dismissed as.

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